Michel Gilbert Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Hi, I was looking at the ETCBC Glossary.pdf file I downloaded from https://www.accordancebible.com/store/details/?pid=MT-ETCBC, and the vowels and dageshes are misplaced in almost all of the Hebrew. Just a heads up and FWIW, but it doesn't look very professional. Regards, Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Michel, I'm looking at it, and I can see a couple of spots where the vowels are slightly shifted over, but not "in almost all of the Hebrew." Would you be willing to post a screenshot of what you're seeing? Also what program are you using to view the PDF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Gilbert Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 Hi Rick,In Safari, in latest iOS, latest Sierra, and also in SL. Also in Preview, and Adobe. Here is a sample from Safari in Sierra: Almost every word has a problem.Regards,Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Gilbert Posted June 22, 2017 Author Share Posted June 22, 2017 Hi again, I'm not trying to be critical. I'm just pointing out that to a professional, it doesn't look professional. It's jarring. These are not small displacements, compared to, for example, 7/1000 of an inch displacement that I think my editor, Prof. Günter Stemberger, would notice. I'm just throwing this out. I assume Acc would want to clean it up. Whether they do, and to what extent, is up to them. I don't look for these things. I was checking because I would like to buy ETCBC. I'll wait for the next sale though. And, I don't exaggerate when it comes to the HB! Regards, Michel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R. Mansfield Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 I looked a bit more closely at the PDF. According to its metadata, it was composed in Apple Pages on a Mac and generated with OS X's internal PDF system. The only font used in the document is Times New Roman, so my first thought was that the font may have been the issue, although TNR is usually a bit better than this. I took a phrase used in the document from Lev 17:10 (הַגֵּר הַגָּר בְּתוֹכָם) and pasted that into Pages. It looked just fine; that is, it did not have the spacing errors in the ETCBC PDF. It looks even better when changed to the Accordance font. Then I remembered that Apple released an update to Pages recently that improved layout of right-to-left languages. That's probably why the text is lining up correctly on my computer when I paste the text into my copy of Pages. All that to say, it was probably an issue of the version of Pages in use when the document was composed last November. I'm not certain who wrote it. Rick Bennett or Helen Brown may know. Perhaps the original author could regenerate the PDF from the document using a newer version of Pages (or apply the Accordance font to the Hebrew text) and re-upload the document. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alistair Posted June 22, 2017 Share Posted June 22, 2017 Was it exported to PDF or printed to PDF? I'm not sure that makes any difference but whoever it was appears to have been using OS X 10.6.8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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